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Using multilevel mixed effects ordered logistic models, this paper conducts an original investigation of the new management as a technology approach for all EU nations in a framework that explicitly recognizes worker representation while incorporating the notion of affective commitment. It is...
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Usually, groups increase their productivity by the specialization of their group members. In these cases, group output is no longer simply a sum of individual outputs. We analyze contests with group-specific public goods that allow for different degrees of complementarity between group members'...
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provision are remarkably accurate. We also present experimental findings from three classic experiments, namely, team production …
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Between and within firms, work teams compete against each other and receive feedback on how well their team is … feedback (RPF) at team level. We find that when subjects work under team incentives, then RPF on team performance increases the … experiment suggests that top performers are particularly motivated by the combination of team incentives and team RPF. In fact …
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also render teams’ identity and social-image concerns salient. We study the effects of tournaments on team performance in a …,700 participants), we vary the salience of team identity, social-image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased … salience of team identity does not improve performance. Social-image motivates mainly the top-performing teams. Additional …
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This paper reports results of two controlled experiments on the behavioural effects of relative performance information (RPI) in different organizational structures. Our baseline study 1 focuses on a centralized organizational structure where employees are exogenously assigned to either a...
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team production relative to individual production remains largely unexplored. Heat can affect team and individual … production in distinct ways, potentially increasing aggression, thereby complicating team coordination. Conversely, teams may …
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I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test scores, high school GPA, and college-test taking...
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This study examines the influence of information constraints on firms' efficiency in using digital technologies, focusing on business websites. Through two natural field experiments in the UK, we provide firms with benchmarked performance information on their websites. The experimental designs...
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This paper studies Comprehensive Performance Assessment, an explicit incentive scheme for local government in England. Motivated by a simple theoretical political agency model, we predict that CPA should increase service quality and local taxation, but have an ambiguous effect on the efficiency...
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